Hello Whitechapel! I'm new here and trying to figure out how this works. I had actually already made a version of this illustration and titled it New Worlds and then I read about this SF cover remodel project. Strange coincidence. I reworked my earlier picture into this cover.

Edited as I am stupid and did not get the picture thing to work at first...

@robb- Hope you didn't edit because of my story comment, wasn't meant as criticism in any way, just my lame attempt at a joke.

Not sure if Rule#5 would apply to a description of a concept, would it? After all every design has some elements of a story to it.

For example my own design, someone could be inspired to write about an astronaut waking up in a white void staring at a universe the size of a bowling ball (if the writer had been drinking a lot and ran out of good ideas).